Industrial Electronics

Smiths Interconnect has created the Intercompact series, a signal + Ethernet PCB connector qualified for demanding rail and industrial applications. The series has PCB-to-PCB and floating mount rack and panel parts, with bodies made from liquid crystal polymer. There are 60 and 41 way signal configurations with ‘Hypertac’ hyperboloid contacts. Described as compact, face-on the connectors are approximately 107 x 15.3mm ...

Analog Devices has introduced a evaluation kit for people-counting using one of its DSPs. In a case and designed to be attached to a ceiling looking straight down, the kit includes a camera and everything needed to get the counted data to the cloud. Its main ingredients are a particular DSP from its Blackfin range, the ADSPBF707BBCZ4-EGE, and a people counting ...

Advantech has based a series of small AI inferencing computers around the Nvidia Jetson family. The AIR-020 series is 139 x 110 x 44.5mm, and the company sees them being used in automated guided vehicles (AGV), autonomous mobile robots (AMR), medical imaging, traffic monitoring, defect inspection and people counting. AIR-020X – Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX SoM embedded, up to six cameras, 21Top/s (INT8), 1,058frame/s AIR-020T ...

Kontron has announced a series of industrial mini-STX motherboards built around AMD’s Ryzen Embedded V1000 and R1000 processors, including Vega graphics. This is its first completely new motherboard since the acquisition of Fujitsu’s industrial motherboard division. Aimed at Windows 10 or Linux-64, and called D3714-V/R mSTX, they support up to four independent 4K displays for industrial PCs, medical displays, digital signage and kiosks, ...

Infineon is aiming at high switching frequency applications dc-dc converter applications such as telecom and solar with its OptiMOS 6 family of 100V mosfets. Compared with OptiMOS 5, the company is claiming: Rds(on) better by 18% Qg x Rds(on) better by 29% Qgd x Rds(on) better by 42% “In a 600W, 36-60V to 12V zero-voltage switched buck-boost converter, OptiMOS 6 in SuperSO8 with 2.2mΩ can achieve 1% ...

Teledyne e2v HiRel has introduced pair of isolated 650V 4A gate drivers aimed at GaN power transistors, offering 2.5kVrms isolation and 100% ac-dc testing at -55 to 125°C. TDGD271 is a single channel driver in 8pad SOIC, while TDGD274 is a dual channel driver in 16pad SOIC. “The TDGD27x family devices are ideal for isolated mosfet, IGBTand SiC or GaN HEMT gate ...

Renesas has introduced a battery pack monitor for long strings of cells that uses an ac-coupled bus to solve the thorny problem of passing data up and down the line. At the same time, it revealed a high-side battery protection and monitoring IC for 4S to 16S cell battery packs. RAA489204 for long strings Stackable up to 30 ICs Up ...

The circular connector specialist binder has released rectangular-flange M12 connectors with multi-position, lockable A-coding. The two-piece M12 panel mount connectors – with square-flange housings and multi-position, lockable A-coding – aim to simplify secure sensor/actuator connections, in applications such as factory automation and robotics. binder writes: The 763 series includes M12 A signal connectors equipped with 4, 5 and 8 pins ...

Trinamic will be demonstrating motor control through Python programming at Smart Production Solutions (SPS 2021) the week after next – for the first time under the Analog Devices flag along with Maxim. Intended to ease prototyping, the company’s TMCM-0960-MotionPy single-board computer (right) runs MicroPython on an Arm Cortex-M4, works over 6V to 50V, and includes CAN, RS485 and UART interfaces as ...

NXP has announced the first processors of its i.MX 9 family, originally announced in March, with some including its first Arm ‘Ethos-U65’ neural network processor (dubbed a ‘microNPU’), with added security for artificial intelligence at the edge. “These attributes enable developers to address areas from voice-assisted smart home and building systems, to low-power industrial gateways and automotive driver monitoring systems,” ...